Anik R has found a lovely BIG snail doorstop/paperweight that looks to have a very similar base to my paperweight here:http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,45676.0/As often seems to be the case, we've found a match (possibly) but it doesn't take us any closer to an ID.

Scavo, now I think your 'thing' and my snail are most definitely related. I found a paperweight just like yours on a Czech auction site, only the internal decoration is exactly like my snail's back. See here: Těžítko

This topic is back from the Glass forum, where it has been confirmed as being a paperweight (not a bowl), and has been linked to snail to give a likely Czech attribution (rather than Murano). Thread title altered to suit.

Hmm, but there is a fact I haven't mentioned as when I listed I didn't consider Czech glass.

It belongs to a friend of mine who bought it around '89/'90. I assume it's from the Czechoslovakia rather than Czech Republic time. He could have bought it as a brand new item - but it is a unlikely as he only buys food and alcohol new!

Nevertheless, the same place producing and changing names? Would HEĆ BOHEMIA have been part of one of the Sklo Unions?